What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

 If you’ve been successful in the past, that success can be a suppressant to future success. In Essentialism, Greg McKeown says “Success can be a catalyst for failure.”

What got you here, won’t get you there. The things that brought you where you are often the very things stopping you from reaching your next level.

Your attachment to your prior success (or failure) and identity is keeping you stuck.

Take the momentum and lessons from the past, sure. But don’t live there. And certainly don’t remain attached to THAT identity.

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Don’t Look To Your Past While Creating Your Future

 “I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” — Mike Rowe

Learn from your past. But don’t look to it when creating your vision for your ideal future.

Your past shouldn’t dictate your future. Yet, when most people create goals or plans, they immediately turn to their past and examine previous results or experiences.

Patterns need not persist.

Let the past be what it was.

Accept the present for what it is.

Then decide where you’ll go and what you’ll become. That’s far more fascinating and interesting. And your future absolutely should be something entirely different from what’s happened in the past. Human beings can expand and evolve to the degree that detach from their past.

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A future bigger than your past

 "Our path is not about what we have done or where we have been; it is about where we are going and what we are becoming.”  Reyna Aburto

Dan Sullivan, the founder of Strategic Coach, is known for saying: Always make your future bigger than your past.  Specifically, Sullivan said, “We remain young to the degree that our ambitions are greater than our memories.”

You make your future bigger than your past by:

• Surrounding yourself with people who remind you more of your future than your past
• Letting go of past failures
• Letting go of past successes
• Freeing yourself from attachments and relationships that only exist for fear of loss — relationships that once made sense but are now “codependent” and unhealthy
• Accepting your current situation for what it is
• Believing your best work is ahead of you
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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Democracy

 Democracy is something we must always be working at.

It is a process never finished, never ending. amd each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future.

Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history; thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hsnd of free men.

Edmund de S Brunner

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Difficulties.

 Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope and afterward rewarded by joy.

Samuel Johnson

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Excellence....

A fundamental principle of educcation should be to make the pupil realise the meaning of excellence, of the first-rate, and to send them out of school and college persuaded that it is their business to learn what is first rate and to pursue it - not only in the job by which they earn their living but in all things snd fields of live snd, sbove sll, in living itself.

Richarrd W. Livingstone.

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Giverrs...

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. 

You simply give to others a bit of yourself - a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion.

You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellows mind and heart.

Charles H. Burr 

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The Golden Rule!

 To keep The Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselved in their places.

If we had the imagination to do that there would be fewer families estranged by misunderstanding between the older and the younger generations, fewer bitter judgements would pass our lips, fewer racial, national and class prejudices wouls strain our lives.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

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Hate...

Thoughts on Hate:

Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves they hate so much.

You can always be sure of this: You cannot express hatred for anything or anybody unless you make use of the supply of hatred within yourself.

The only hatred you can express is your own personal possession.

To hate is to be enslaved by evil.

Thomas Dreier

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Life....

 Wisdom on Life:

I believe one of the greatest ideas for the prolongation of a useful and happy life experience is to have a variety of interests.....

One's interest in life itself is always augmented by many a hobby of interest that contributes to one's special bent or happiness.

These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. Fisherman understand this.

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest,

People with interest are never bored!

George Matthew Adams

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Brian Rose

 Brian Rose left a successful career as a banker in Wall Street and the City of London to start London Real. His life up to this point had delivered on the promises of his university education at MIT and his personal ambitions, but he felt empty. 

So he quit his job and started a podcast to share his journey.

He fought resistance to turn London Real into a new generation media business with over a billion views and two million subscribers. Brian has conducted over 800 in-depth interviews as an antidote to the numbing effects of mainstream media.

Brian also founded London Real Academy offering live personal mentorship with courses designed to help you Transform Yourself.

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Cal Fussman

 Over the years, questions have taken me around the world and into interviews with hundreds of the most talented, compelling and powerful people on earth.

But not long ago, a very wise woman suggested I ask three of myself.

WHO AM I? WHERE AM I GOING? WHY?

That’s definitely a good way to begin thinking about a bio.

Of the three, the first is the hardest.

WHO AM I?

I am someone who is always going someplace new.

Young people wearing earbuds may only know of me through my podcast, Big Questions, which recently cracked the iTunes top 50 in its first week.

People who recognize me in airports because of my Fedora are likely to have seen me speak at conferences and corporate events around the world over the last couple of years.

 Readers may know me for some time now as a New York Times best-selling author.

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Grant Cardone

 “I work with small companies and Fortune 500 companies to grow sales by finding overlooked opportunities and customizing the sales process to be more effective. I have worked with companies like Google, Sprint, Aflac, Toyota, GM, Ford, and thousands more. I own and operate seven companies that do almost $100 million in annual sales and I’m also a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, & considered the top sales training and social media expert in the world today.”

“SUCCESS IS YOUR DUTY, OBLIGATION, RESPONSIBILITY.” 

– Grant Cardone

Grant urges his followers and clients to make success their duty, responsibility, obligation, and to rise above outdated, unworkable middle-class myths and limitations in order to achieve true freedom for themselves and their families.

His straight-shooting viewpoints on leadership, the economy, small business, retail sales, employment, and headlines have made him a valuable resource for media seeking commentary and insights on real topics that matter.

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Dan Sullivan

 Dan Sullivan is founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. A visionary, an innovator, and a gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 40 years’ experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups. Dan’s strong belief in and commitment to the power of the entrepreneur is evident in all areas of Strategic Coach® and its successful coaching program, which works to help entrepreneurs reach their full potential in both their business and personal lives.

He is author of over 30 publications, including The Great Crossover, The 21st Century Agent, Creative Destruction, and How The Best Get Better®. He is co-author of The Laws of Lifetime Growth and The Advisor Century.

Dan is married to Babs Smith, his partner in business and in life. They jointly own and operate The Strategic Coach Inc., with offices in Toronto, Chicago, and the U.K. Dan and Babs reside in Toronto.

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Patrick Bid-David

 Patrick’s amazing story starts with his family immigrating to America when he was 10-years old.  His parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian revolution and were eventually granted U.S. citizenship. After high school Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry.  After a tenure with a couple of traditional companies, he was inspired to launch PHP Agency Inc., an insurance sales, marketing and distribution company – and did so before he turned 30. 

PHP is now one of the fastest growing companies in the financial marketplace. Patrick is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching thought-provoking perspectives on entrepreneurship and disrupting the traditional approach to a career.  Patrick’s popularity surged and created a buzz in the hearts of entrepreneurs all over the world when The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Seconds, a video he created, accumulated over 30 million views online (It became a book in June 2016: The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Pages ). That video and scores of other videos comprise his library of edifying, educational and inspirational content about entrepreneurship – all available at Valuetainment, a media brand he conceived and founded. Valuetainment exists to teach about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and personal development while inspiring people to break from limiting beliefs or other constraints and achieve their dreams.  It has been referred to as “the best channel for entrepreneurs.

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Art Williams

n 1965, Williams's father suddenly died of a heart attack. He had a WHOLE LIFE INSUARNCEpolicy that left their family underinsured. Five years later Art Williams' cousin Ted Harrison introduced him to the concept of Term Life insuarance, a simpler alternative to whole life which requires less cashflow and which, at that time, was almost never sold and rarely heard of outside the insurance industry. Williams was taken aback by the idea of not knowing that there was a choice when buying life insurance and described the whole conversation as "disturbing,"^[2] recalling his father's death and referring to the fact that people had no idea of such a product. Believing that families were paying too much for whole life policies that left them poor in the wallet and deeply underinsured, Williams joined his cousin at ITT Financial Services in 1970. In June 1973, six months before ITT went out of business, he left and went on board with Waddell & Reed another Buy term and invest the difference (BTID) company that saw early success.

Williams gained momentum at W&R and became regional vice-president (RVP) the same year, with a sales force that covered 6 states. Despite the numerous benefits of working at W&R in comparison to ITT, it became clear to Williams that with a corporate structure in which the executives, not the sales force, owned the company, financial decisions would always have priority over the clients and there would be limits on how much the company could grow.

On February 10, 1977, Williams and 85 associates founded their own company AL WILLIAMS $ ASSOCIATES on a simple philosophy: "Buy Term and Invest the Difference." He convinced many customers to switch from their conventional whole-life insurance to term policies. The company's rapid growth to become the largest seller of life insurance in the U.S. was enhanced by his emphasis on promoting his people. He was one of the first to have weekly video conferences on the company's private television broadcast system. This allowed him to personally speak to each of his 225,000 plus agents and to create a family feeling that inspired them to become Financially Independent. A.L. Williams became Primerica Financial Services.

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Steven Pressfield

I wrote for 17 years before I earned my first penny (a $3500 option on a screenplay that was never produced).

I wrote for 27 years before I got my first novel published (The Legend of Bagger Vance).

During that time I worked 21 different jobs in eleven states.

I taught school, I drove tractor-trailers, I worked in advertising and as a screenwriter in ollywood, I worked on offshore oil rigs, I picked fruit as a migrant worker ...

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Kevin O'Leary

 Kevin O’Leary was born to a middle class family in 1954. The combination of Kevin’s mother’s family heritage as merchants and his father’s Irish charisma truly meant that O’Leary was born for business. Kevin learned most of his business intuition from his mother. She taught him key business and financial insights from an early age. These became Kevin’s core philosophies, and the pillars upon which he would one day build his empire.

Kevin’s approach to business went through major changes as a teenager. During his second day on the job at a local ice cream shop, his boss came into the front of the store where Kevin was scooping ice cream. She looked at Kevin and asked him to perform a task that he wasn’t expecting. What happened next had a profound effect on Kevin – one that stayed with him for the rest of his life.

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Who is smart - you or your phone?

 Don't let you smart phone control you!

Did you know that the average person checks their phone about 400 times a day? Firstly, take control of your phone by turning off alerts. What you replace those alerts with is very important! 

I suggest you put your goals on your screen saver so that every time you pick up your phone, you will be reminded of them. Then, your Reticular Activating System can start filtering them as important. That’s over 400 TRIGGERS per day to begin alerting that 9% of your thoughts that will change your life! 

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